Animals People

Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141657879X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal's People written by Indra Sinha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Animal's People" is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.

Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416578854
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal's People written by Indra Sinha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Booker-shortlisted novel, Indra Sinha’s profane, furious, and scathingly funny narrator delivers an unflinching look at what it means to be human. I used to be human once. So I’m told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being... Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of “that night” when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town of Khaufpur, and the Apocalypse visited his slums. Now just turned seventeen and well schooled in street work, he lives by his wits, spending his days jamisponding (spying) on town officials and looking after the elderly nun who raised him, Ma Franci. His nights are spent fantasizing about Nisha, the girlfriend of the local resistance leader, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When Elli Barber, a young American doctor, arrives in Khaufpur to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk—only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn’t there to do the dirty work of the Kampani—Animal gets caught up in a web of intrigues, scams, and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal’s People illuminates a dark world shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy. A stunning tale of an unforgettable character, it is an unflinching look at what it means to be human: the wounds that never heal and a spirit that will not be quenched.

Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471152901
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal's People written by Indra Sinha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of contemporary India.

Author : Gary Lawrence Francione
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231139500
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals as Persons written by Gary Lawrence Francione and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He then presents a theory of animal rights that focuses on the need to accord all sentient nonhumans the right not to be treated as property.

Author : Suzanne Venino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870444883
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals Helping People written by Suzanne Venino and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes some of the many tasks that animals perform and other ways in which they benefit people.

Author : Ronald M. Atlas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1555818439
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Health written by Ronald M. Atlas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging infectious diseases are often due to environmental disruption, which exposes microbes to a different niche that selects for new virulence traits and facilitates transmission between animals and humans. Thus, health of humans also depends upon health of animals and the environment – a concept called One Health. This book presents core concepts, compelling evidence, successful applications, and remaining challenges of One Health approaches to thwarting the threat of emerging infectious disease. Written by scientists working in the field, this book will provide a series of "stories" about how disruption of the environment and transmission from animal hosts is responsible for emerging human and animal diseases. Explains the concept of One Health and the history of the One Health paradigm shift. Traces the emergence of devastating new diseases in both animals and humans. Presents case histories of notable, new zoonoses, including West Nile virus, hantavirus, Lyme disease, SARS, and salmonella. Links several epidemic zoonoses with the environmental factors that promote them. Offers insight into the mechanisms of microbial evolution toward pathogenicity. Discusses the many causes behind the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Presents new technologies and approaches for public health disease surveillance. Offers political and bureaucratic strategies for promoting the global acceptance of One Health.

Author : Catherine Tiplady
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845939832
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Abuse written by Catherine Tiplady and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal abuse is an increasingly recognized issue throughout the world and makes headlines every year. The plight of animals is well documented, but the hidden cost to those who help is not fully understood. This practical handbook covers definitions, types and explanations of forms of animal abuse, and then examines the impacts of animal abuse on professionals and provides coping strategies. The book concludes with a guide to dealing with animal abuse, including providing first aid for common emergencies and dealing with the human abusers.

Author : Orion Magazine Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935713104
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and People written by Orion Magazine Staff and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, protect them, cause them suffering. The essays collected here explore these contradicitons in all their difficulty, but they also celebrate our connection to the animal world and provide a model for how we might respect and revere our fellow animals more deeply."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Lee Broderick
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702483
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People with Animals written by Lee Broderick and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with Animals emphasizes the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take. The types of relationship studied include the importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, butchery, symbolism and food. Examples are drawn from the Pleistocene to the present day and from the Altai Mountains, Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Mongolia and North America. The 11 papers work from the basis that animals are an integral part of society and that past society is the object of most archaeological inquiry. Discussion papers explore this topic and use the case-studies presented in other contributions to suggest the importance of ethnozooarchaeology not just to archaeology but also to anthrozoology. A further contribution to archaeological theory is made by an argument for the validity of ethnozooarchaeology derived models to Neanderthals. The book makes a compelling case for the importance of human-animal relations in the archaeological record and demonstrates why the information contained in this record is of significance to specialists in other disciplines.

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Animals Saved the People written by and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales from people in the Deep South including Cajun, Creole, Native American, African American, those of English as well as Scotch-Irish-German traditions, and others living in Appalachia.